DIY investor

Andy Davis

Lessons from on high

A few months ago, I helped to produce a report on the investment issues facing large institutions collectively responsible for assets worth hundreds of billions of dollars. These are among the most sophisticated investors in the world but the exercise revealed both that the challenges they face are strikingly similar to those that confront individual DIY investors, and that there are strong parallels between the solutions these two groups choose.

About Prospect Magazine

In Prospect’s December issue: Adam Posen, Diane Coyle and Nicolas Véron examine the state of Britain’s economy with Brexit looming and suggest that with a large part of the City looking to move and with productivity remaining low the outlook is firmly negative. Posen suggests that the only thing capable of disciplining the Brexit economy is the reality that things are going to be worse. Coyle suggest that although Brexit will hamper Britain’s productivity, the problem is long-term. Véron argues that more than a tenth of the City’s business will disappear due to Brexit—a significant slice that will be difficult to cover off.
Elsewhere in the issue: Steve Bloomfield uncovers what is going on at Dfid, the struggling government department that recently lost its Secretary of State. Nick Cohen looks at the rise of the Strong Man is Eastern Europe as Viktor Orbán clamps down on society and Lizzie Porter reports from Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, a region plagued by war and political instability.